Sujet : Re: Humble Choice April 2025
De : spallshurgenson (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Spalls Hurgenson)
Groupes : comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.actionDate : 02. Apr 2025, 20:58:35
Autres entêtes
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 11:37:06 -0600, "rms" <
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wrote:
I freaked out, went hogwild and grabbed aliens & tombraider, big thanks
spalls!
>
You're welcome to them! I hope you have fun.
"Tomb Raider" is Tomb Raider; they games are exactly what you expect.
The remasters aren't quite as nice as the 2007 game but they're fine
for what they were and they're honest to the source material. I'm not
crazy about remasters in general, but if you have to do one, I guess
this is the way to do it. But even with all that work, they still feel
and play like games developed in the 90s.
"Aliens: Dark Descent" is a much more mixed bag; like I said,
conceptually it was really neat, and some of its mechanics were quite
well done, but I think it didn't gel together into a consistent whole.
But it's hard to resist the allure of blasting xenomorphs, and anyway,
I thought it a lot better than many of the other recent 'games based
on action-flicks from the 80s' (e.g., "Robocop: Rogue City"
,"Terminator: Salvation", or "Starship Troopers: Terran Command").
It's a flawed B-list game that I struggled to have fun with, but I
can't hate it. I'd be interested to hear your take on it, if you ever
get around to actually playing it.
(and even if you never do, well, at least your Number incremented by
two. I can take pride in having a part of that ;-)